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Neurodegenerative Disease Advance: Study Details How Brain Enzyme Interacts With Drug-Like Lead Compound for Huntington's
A significant breakthrough
has been made towards
developing an effective
treatment for
neurodegenerative diseases
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New Structural Insight Into Neurodegenerative Disease
Scientists have released new
results on the structure and
molecular details of the
neurodegenerative
disease-associated protein
Ataxin-1. Mutations in
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Promising Therapy Developed for Huntington's Disease
There's new hope in the
fight against Huntington's
disease. Scientists have
helped design a compound
that suppresses symptoms of
the devastating disease in
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Toxic Protein Build-Up in Blood Shines Light on Fatal Brain Disease
A new light-based technique
for measuring levels of the
toxic protein that causes
Huntington's disease (HD)
has been used to demonstrate
that the protein builds up
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Breakthrough on Huntington's Disease
May 23, 2013 — Researchers have succeeded in preventing very early symptoms of Huntington’s disease, depression and anxiety, by deactivating the mutated huntingtin protein in the brains of ... > full story -
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Melatonin Delays ALS Symptom Onset and Death in Mice
April 25, 2013 — Melatonin injections delayed symptom onset and reduced mortality in a mouse model of the neurodegenerative condition amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, according to a new ... > full story -
Controlling Element of Huntington's Disease Discovered: Molecular Troika Regulates Production of Harmful Protein
February 26, 2013 — A three molecule complex may be a target for treating Huntington's disease, a genetic disorder affecting the ... > full story -
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Cell Loss in the Brain Relates to Variations in Individual Symptoms in Huntington’s Disease
January 7, 2013 — Scientists have wrestled to understand why Huntington's disease, which is caused by a single gene mutation, can produce such variable symptoms. An authoritative review by a group of leading experts ... > full story -
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New Understanding of Cellular Activity Can Lead to Future Strategies for Dealing With Neurodegenerative Diseases
December 6, 2012 — A new understanding of what takes place on the cellular level during the development of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, ALS and Huntington’s diseases, ... > full story -
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Chemical 'Switches' for Neurodegenerative Diseases Discovered
November 27, 2012 — Researchers have identified and “switched off” a chemical chain that causes neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and dementia. The ... > full story -
Pathology of Huntington's Disease Identified
October 17, 2012 — A new study provides novel insight into the impact that Huntington's disease has on the ... > full story -
Zinc Fingers: A New Tool in the Fight Against Huntington's Disease
October 10, 2012 — Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited genetic disorder caused by the multiple repetition of a DNA sequence (the nucleotides CAG) in the gene encoding a protein called "Huntingtin". People who do ... > full story -
Huntington’s Gene Mutation Carriers Learn Faster
September 14, 2012 — People who bear the genetic mutation for Huntington's disease learn faster than healthy people. The more pronounced the mutation was, the more quickly they ... > full story -
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Two Proteins Offer a 'Clearer' Way to Treat Huntington’s Disease
July 11, 2012 — Researchers have identified two key regulatory proteins critical to clearing away misfolded proteins that accumulate and cause the progressive, deadly neurodegeneration of Huntington’s disease ... > full story
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